According to the poll, 48% of teens 13–18 use IM—more than twice the number of adults who IM. Almost 75% of adults who do use IM send more emails that instant messages, in contrast to teens who send more IMs than emails. More than half the teens who use IM send more than 25 a day and one in five send more than 100. Both teens and adults prefer the telephone when sharing serious or confidentail news, but 16% of teens admit to breaking up with someone over IM. More here.
Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?